Johnny Damon circled the bases and disappeared into a pack of teammates waiting at home plate to celebrate Tampa Bay’s first home win of the season.

The Rays rallied in dramatic fashion to beat visiting Minnesota 4-3 in extra innings Thursday night, scoring twice to tie it in the ninth and overcoming another deficit in the 10th to win on Damon’s one-out, two-run homer that barely cleared the wall in right field to give the struggling defending AL East champions their third straight win.

“It’s nice to see them celebrating. … We needed something like that to really get us going,” said manager Joe Maddon, whose sputtering offense entered the ninth with just four hits off Twins starter Carl Pavano.

Pavano pitched eight shutout innings but was denied the victory when Minnesota closer Joe Nathan gave up a two-run double to Matt Joyce in the ninth.

The Twins regained the lead in the 10th. But Sam Fuld singled with one out in the Tampa Bay 10th off Matt Capps (1-1), and Damon followed with his third homer of the season, driving the ball into the first row of the right-field seats.

“Going up to that last at-bat, I’m 0 for 4 in the game and really couldn’t do anything off Pavano. But you learn how to forget about it,” Damon said.

Twins catcher Joe Mauer will be going on the 15-day disabled list because of leg weakness. Mauer had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee in the offseason. He had a very light workload during spring training to try to reduce the wear and tear on his legs and stay fresh for the rigors of catching an entire season. Manager Ron Gardenhire said Mauer’s knee has been OK, but the leg weakness has contributed to soreness throughout the body.

Replay: Major League Baseball is leaning toward expanding replay for the 2012 season to include trapped balls and fair-or-foul rulings down the lines, a person familiar with the talks tells The Associated Press.

Commissioner Bud Selig and a group of umpires discussed the extra video review at spring training and were in agreement, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter is still being discussed.

“Yeah to all of them, oh yeah,” St. Louis reliever Ryan Franklin said. “I just think they should all be called the right way, and it doesn’t matter if it takes an extra five minutes.”

Yankees: Reliever Pedro Feliciano has a torn capsule in his left shoulder and will get a second opinion before deciding if he should have season-ending surgery. New York’s left-handed specialist has been on the disabled list since the start of the season with what was described as a rotator cuff strain, but a contrast MRI exam performed Wednesday showed the tear.

Miscellany: Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, 73, has been discharged from a Baltimore hospital after being treated for a fever and infection.